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As Greater Boston's community foundation, the Boston Foundation is focused on the myriad of factors which make our city unique and successful. With an emphasis on strengthening this region's competitiveness in the global economy, the Foundation works with many partners to publish cutting edge research, hold public forums, and convene task forces of experts and stakeholders to create action agendas for real change.

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The Latino legacy Fund announces $75,000 in new grants to four organizations supporting ESOL and economic mobility for Latinos, and celebrates a $1,000,000 fundraising milestone.

The Boston Foundation is pleased to announce its latest round of discretionary grants, including nearly $1 million in grants through the Foundation's Open Door Grants program

Eileen McAnneny presents at the Grade Incomplete forum

Last week's forum on community college funding was based on a look back at past efforts at performance funding, but it sparked an important conversation about the future of community colleges, says Senior Program Officer Antoniya Marinova.

In an opinion piece in the Boston Globe, Paul Grogan highlights four recommended areas of focus for the future of the Boston Public Schools, and urges the district not to turn its back on the lessons of successful schools.

The Boston Globe profiles the remarkable success of Commonwealth Kitchen, a TBF "There at the Beginning" grantee that has incubated dozens of successful food startups in the city from its facility in a former meat packing plant in Dorchester.

Boston Foundation Director Vanessa Calderón-Rosado, a co-chair of Massachusetts United for Puerto Rico, is featured in a profile that highlights her work on behalf of affordable housing in Boston.

Paul Grogan comments on the importance of business-education partnerships in this story about an important gift from the Lupoli Family Foundation to Northern Essex Community College.

Paul Grogan weighs in on the merits of an appointed versus elected school committee in this piece by the Boston Globe's James Vaznis.

A new report looks back at the short-lived implementation of a performance-based funding formula for community colleges, and the lessons we could take away and apply to new efforts to ensure colleges are supported and rewarded as they grow and improve outcomes.

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The 2018 annual report, titled "Better Together," focuses on the key roles partnerships among the Boston Foundation, donors, philanthropies, nonprofits, advisors and others play in solving our most challenging problems.

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